Steps are battling with Ed Sheeran for this week’s UK Number One album

The ’90s pop veterans new LP ‘Tears On The Dancefloor’ is currently at the summit of the chart ahead of Sheeran’s ‘÷’ by 4,000 copies . It is their first album of new material in over 15 years. Sheeran has dominated the UK album chart for the last seven weeks.

Speaking about their return, Lisa Scott Lee recently said: “This is two years in the making. We really wanted to celebrate twenty years of Steps — we’re very proud of it — and fans seemed to want that also.

“So it started two years ago with the five of us, then we met our new management who’ve just been fantastic. We said: it’s twenty years of Steps, what can we do to make it special?”

Asked about their relevance in 2017, she replied: “Well we’re marking our twentieth anniversary, but also a lot’s happened within the world in those twenty years, hasn’t it? It’s a tough place out there. We’re not here to get into the politics of the world but what we can offer is escapism and a bit of positivity in people’s lives.